784 fisheries of the united states. [140j 



01. Photographs of fishermen and fish merchants.* 



Irish fishermen. 



Three Irish fishermen belonging to the cunner boats at Commercial 

 Wharf, Boston, Mass., 1882. (Photo. No. 1809.) U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



Aged fishermen of New England. 



Two old New England fishermen — 1. Thomas Thompson, and, 2. 

 William Tarr Abbott — who claim to have been captured in the 

 war of 1S12-'15 and incarcerated in Dartmoor prison, England. 

 Eockport, Mass., 1882. (Photo. No. 1820.) U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



Group of old fishermen. 



Group of eight oldest fishermen of Rockport. Combined ages, 050 

 years. Rockport, Mass., 1882. (Photo. No. 1827.) U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



New England fishermen. 



Crowd of 'fishermen — chiefly mackerel catchers — on Leighton's 

 Wharf, waiting for a change of weather, which may enable 

 them to leave port. Gloucester, Mass., 1882. (Photo. No. 2074.) 

 U. S. Fish Commission. When unfavorable winds or calms 

 (as in this instance) prevent the vessels from sailing the skip- 

 pers and crews generally gather on the wharves nearest to 

 their respective schooners and wait for a change in the wind 

 or weather which may permit of their sailing. 



Mackerel fishermen. 



Capt. Solomon Jacobs and full crew — 17 men, all told — of mackerel 

 schooner Edward E. Webster, of Gloucester, Mass. This ves- 

 sel carries two purse-seines and two seine-boats. In three 

 years she has stocked a total of $83,000 as follows: 1880, 

 $19,S00; 1881, $20,800 ; 1882, $37,000. Her catch in the last 

 mentioned year was 1,170,000 fresh mackerel, in number, and 

 2,250 barrels of salted mackerel. Time employed each season, 

 about eight months. Gloucester, Mass., 1882. (Photo. No. 

 2088.) U. S. Fish Commission. 



Crew of a fresh halibut schooner. 



Crew of the fresh-halibut schooner Isaac Chapman, of Gloucester ; 

 ready for sea, waiting for steam-tug to come and tow the ves- 

 sel out of the harbor. Gloucester, Mass., 1882. (Photo. No. 

 2110.) U. S. Fish Commission. 



* The numbers given are those belonging to the negatives from which the photo- 

 graphs were made, and should not be confounded with the National Museum cata- 

 logue numbers attached to various other exhibits. 



